Word: savioring
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...deserve. The strip-film projector is no substitute for mother love, the basketball game for rabbit-hunting with Dad. The sooner parents return to the fundamental philosophy of home as the center of family life, the 'better off the kids will be ... Some people acclaim TV as the savior of the family at home. This still avoids the main issue: love and affection for one another...
...should leave this church without making a binding vow that, with God's grace, you will try from this moment on to be a better Christian ... If you are not changed, the carols of Christmas Day will not proclaim the birth of the Savior of mankind, no matter how beautifully they may be sung. Instead, they will echo with the hollow sound of human hypocrisy and say only to a skeptical world, 'The so-called Incarnation is nothing but a sentimental fraud...
...merchant, willed one half of his estate to a Trust Fund for the establishment of public lectures in Boston. In his will he first stressed the importance of natural religion: "I wish a course of lectures to be given on natural religion showing its conformity to that of our Savior...
Jones, at sixty-one, remembers himself as the savior of both Springfield, Illinois, and the American theatre. He "saved" Springfield before World War I by joining the First Illinois Cavalry despite his "violent opposition to any form of exercise." He rescued the American theatre when "it was on its last legs in 1912. I was in the Wisconsin Players and we came forward and pulled it through...
...American Christianity often looks confused, lacking a truly creedal structure, and seeming to have no very clear conception of the place and role of Jesus as Savior and Redeemer...